US678703A - Penholder. - Google Patents

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No. 6785703. Y Patented July I6, |9GI.

J. V. WASHBUH'NE.

PENHoLnEn.

(Application Bled Nov. 14. 1900.)

'(No Model.)

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PENHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,703, dated July 16, 1901. Application filed November 14, 1900. Serial No. 36,469. (No model.)

To al?, whom, it may con/cern:

Beit known that I, JAMES V. WASHBURNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Penholders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a penholder having a handle, a tubular end, and a longitudinallyarranged gripping member Within the tubular end, the objects being to simplify the construction of the mechanism, reduce the cost, and more positively hold the pen in the penholder.

In carrying out my invention Iprovide a tubular end and a longitudinally-extendingand transversely-arranged gripping member therein that is bent in cross-section and which member has ayielding function on the insertion of a pen. The bent gripping member is adapted to different forms of tubular ends. This grip'- pin g member may be bent in cross-section in approximately the form of a letter S or of a concavo-eonvex strip, either of which preferable forms provides for the yielding function on the insertion of the pen.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section and partial elevation, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section at @c w of Fig. l, representing the simpler or generic form of the invention. Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal section, and Fig. 4: an end view, representing a modification. Fig. 5 is a cross-section showing the longitudinally-arranged gripping member of concave-convex form in cross-section. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section and partial elevation. Fig. 7 is an end View; Fig. S, an inverted plan at one end. Fig. 9 is a cross-section approximately at y y of Fig. 6, showing a slightly-modified form of the devices shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8. Fig. lOis a longitudinal section and partial elevation, and Fig. 1l a cross-section atea of Fig. l0,showingafurther modification. Fig. l2 isalongitudinal sect-ion and partial elevation, and Fig. 13 a cross-section at no of Fig. l2, showing still another modification. Fig. 14 is apartial longitudinal section and elevation, and Fig. l5 a cross-section at y' 'j of Fig. 14, showing still another modified form of the invention.

In Figs. l and 6 the end of the handle @has a reduced portion a to receive the tubular metal end i9. In Fig. lO the tubular end b surrounds the handle and is movable longitudinally thereon, while in Figs. 12 and le the tubular end b2, surrounding the handle, may not be longitudinally movable thereon.

The longitudinally and transversely arranged gripping member in its entire length may be of approximately S form in cross-section, as shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, 4f, 6, 7, 8, 9, l0, and Il, or of approximately S form in cross-section for part of its length, as shown in Figs. l2 and 14., or of concavo-convex form, as shown in Fig. 5. This gripping member is within the tubular end and extends across the same, occupying an approximately central position. Figs. l and 2 show the generic structure in which this gripping member of approximately S form in crosssection is made,preferably,with rounded ends and simplyinserted in the tubular end. Said gripping member c will maintain its position in the tubular end, because of the friction between its opposite edges or contacting surfaces and the inner opposite surfaces of the tubular member, and it will not pull out from said end when the pen is removed,mainly because the under gripping edge against the tubular end has a longer frictional line than the portion of the opposite edge engaging the pen, so that, as it were, the balance of power mechanically is in favor of the gripping member maintaining its place in the tubular end. However, if desirable', the outer end of the tubular portion h may be 'slightly contracted, as shown in Figs. .3 and 4, to insure the gripping member remaining within the tubular end.

As a further means for holding the longitudinally-arranged gripping member within the tubular end I may provide the tubular end with an outward projection and corresponding internal recess 2 and the longitudinally-arranged member c with a projection 3, fitting the same, the said parts being sprung to place. This projection and recess 2 may be replaced with a hole 4; in the tubular end and the projection 3 slightly lengthened to pass into or through the same, and where a form of penholder is employed such as shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8, and in which the end is IOO beveled and provided with a center, I prefer to make the gripping member c with an end projection 5 to be received in the notch 6 at the end of the tubular end of the holder, so as to prevent the pen being accidentally inserted at the wrong side or in a manner that would tend to loosen the gripping member.

In Fig. 10 the longitudinally-arranged gripping member c is of approximately S form throughout and passes into a notch in the end of the handle a and is preferably held in place by a pin '7. With this form of holder I prefer to provide the tubular end h with a mortise 8 and to pass a pin 9 through the handle ci, the said pin moving through the mortise 8 with the longitudinal movement of the tubular end over the gripping member, the pin preventing the tubular end coming away from the handle and in the movement of the tubular end h/ providing for uncovering the pen and allowing the same to drop away from the holder.

In the modification shown in Figs. 12 and 13 the gripping member c, of approximately S form, is provided with an end c2, strictly flat and adapted to pass into a narrow cut made in the end of the handle et, with which device I prefer to employ a pin 10, passing through the handle to prevent the removal of the gripping member.

The modification shown in Figs. 14: and 15 represents a device similar, so far as the gripping member, handle, and tubular end are concerned, to that shown in Figs. 12 and 13, except that in the place of the pin 10 the Hat portion c2, formed with the gripping member and inserted in the cut in the handle, may be provided with ends or lips 11, adapted to be bent over into the wood of the handle, so as to hold the gripping member in its relation to the handle and prevent the accidental removal of the same, the same as would the pin 10.

In all of these devices the pen is inserted and held within the tubular end between the under surface of the tubular end and a surface of the longitudinally extending and transversely-arranged gripping member, and this gripping member being bent in cross-section provides a yielding function to compensate for the insertion of the pen, the gripping member slightly changing its shape on the insertion of the pen rather than the tubular end, which in itself may or may not have a yielding action, and said yielding function maintaining the frictional grip of the longituevene?.

dinally-arranged member upon the pen to hold the same in place.

It will be noted that in the accompanying drawings in all the forms chosen to illustrate my invention the inner member or device for holding the pen in connection with the tubular end has a plane from its opposite parallel edges or contacting surfaces which virtually divides the tubular end into equal parts.

I claim as my invention- 1. A penholder having a tubular end for the reception of a pen and a longitudinallyextending and transversely-arranged gripping member therein bent in cross-section, substantially as specified.

2. A penholder having a tubular end for the reception of a pen, and a suitably-arranged inner member of a form which in cross-section approximates aletter S ,substantially as described.

3. The combination in a penholder with the tubular end, of a longitudinally-arranged gripping member, a lug upon one edge for maintaining the position of the same in the tubular end and a projection upon the same edge at the outer end to prevent the pen being inserted upon the wrong side, substan tially as specified.

4t. A penholder having a tubular end for the reception of a pen and an inner longitudinallyextending resilient gripping member bent in cross-section and adapted to a lateral yielding action in gripping the pen between the same and the tubular end, substantially as described.

`5. Apenholder having a tubular end for the reception of a pen and a longitudinallyextending gripping member therein bent'in cross-section and which member extends transversely of the tubular end and through the longitudinal axis thereof substantially dividing the space inclosed by the tubular end into equal parts, substantially as set forth.

6. In a penholder having a tubular end for the reception of a pen, alongitudinally-arranged inner device bent in cross-section and having a plane from its opposite parallel edges which virtually divides the said tubular end into equal parts, substantially as described.

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Signed by me this 9th day of November, g

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